Killer Dad Chris Watts makes 'friend' behind bars

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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🗓️ 17 July 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Killer Dad Chris Watts has apparently made friends behind bars. A new book reports he's become close to the young man who kidnapped teen Jayme Closs and killed her parents. The book's author writes that friendship has developed through Bible study. He also reports Watts has photos of his dead family posted in his cell. Joining Nancy Grace today:Dr. Bethany Marshall - Psychoanalyst, Beverly HillsSheryl McCollum - Director of the Atlanta Cold Case Investigative Research InstituteJoseph Scott Morgan - Professor of Forensics Jacksonville State University, Author of "Blood Beneath My Feet"Sean Walsh - DailyMail.com, MailOnline & DailyMailTVJohn Glatt - Author of "The Perfect Father: The True Story of Chris Watts, His All-American Family, and a Shocking Murder" (available 7/21)

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0:00.0	I'm Joseph Scott Morgan.
0:01.7	I was the youngest medical legal death investigator in the country.
0:04.8	The first time I've ever made a death notification on you after that moment
0:08.6	that I was going to try to be as compassionate as I possibly could.
0:12.0	Because when families are rocked by death,
0:14.9	the only thing they really want are answers.
0:18.1	They ask how, where, it was my job as a death investigator to bring those answers.
0:26.7	Listen to Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan, wherever you get your podcasts.
0:31.2	The name Chris Watts will live in infamy after the murder.
0:41.6	Little girls, but believe it or not, has he had second thoughts behind bars?
0:47.5	Apparently the inside of his jail cell is plastered with photos of his dead wife and
0:55.2	two little girls Bella and Celeste and catch this.
0:59.6	He is struck up an unusual friendship with another perp behind bars.
1:06.6	The kidnapper Jake Patterson, who swiped Jamie Clause and murdered both of her parents.
1:14.9	Now gee, what did these two have in common?
1:24.2	Crime stories with Nancy Grace.
1:28.6	Now in case you don't remember, take a listen to Killer Dad Chris Watts.
1:43.8	It's kind of hard to hear, but you are hearing Killer Dad Chris Watts telling investigators
1:53.5	that after he murdered his wife, he quote, didn't know what happened.
1:59.6	Really?
2:00.6	Because then his daughter came in, his little bitty baby girl aged four and says what's
2:05.6	wrong with mommy.
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